Since December the residents of Emahlubini village outside Mthatha have been stranded after heavy rains destroyed the revamped bridge which is the village's only access.
The road to the 55th ANC national elective conference has not been smooth sailing for the province’s biggest region, OR Tambo. It is the ANC’s second-largest region after eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal. The region is expected to be influential because it will send 147 delegates to the conference at Nasrec, in Johannesburg, in two weeks’ time.
Eastern Cape House of Traditional and Khoi-San Leaders acting secretary Vuyo Stofile said the early start of the season was meant to cater to boys who were not in school.
A disgruntled UDM councillor in the Mhlontlo municipality has written a scathing letter to Cogta MEC Zolile Williams, accusing the ANC-led council of trying to privatise a municipal BnB at the Tsitsa Falls, one of the area’s biggest tourist attractions near Qumbu. In his letter, seen by the Dispatch, Zakheni Nondaka alleged that the municipality had taken a resolution a few years back to develop Tsitsa Falls in Shawbury village as a major tourist destination and built the BnB as one of the as.
The Eastern Cape is bracing for a deluge of snow, rain and freezing temperatures after an official stage 6 weather warning from the SA Weather Service on Sunday. Farmers in Stutterheim and Hogsback welcomed the wet weather, recording more than 60mm of rainfall since Sunday, but poultry farmers in Dikeni fear that the sudden drop in temperatures and extreme load-shedding will result in livestock fatalities.